Disclaimer: I don't own Grey's Anatomy, I just borrowed the name of the characters for entertaining, no intention to violate any copyrights.

A/N: First of all, sorry that it took such a long time to update. I took some advices to try to get a beta reader to amend my poor work, I touched couple of nice people and was waiting for them to come back to me. Life is hectic, understandably, so I was waiting patiently. However, it hit me today, I am going on a business trip tomorrow, that involve 5 flights in 2 weeks, terrible thing could happened (touch wood), I don't wanna stuck in the woods for days (touch wood) and thought about holy crap, I had one more unfinished matter. So, here is chapter 8, all mistakes are on me, if you found it violated your language, I am deeply, deeply, deeply sorry.
And, if any one of you like my story and willing to help me beta it, please, really, please help me. I have another 7 chapters had finished, and I have another story with 9 chapters finished but not dare to put it out there yet. If you have time and don't mind to edit my shitty writing, please PM me, thanks ;-)

Chapter 8

"Robbins!" The plastic surgeon burst in the lounge.

Arizona nearly jumped a feet high, coffee spilt all over the floor of the lounge. "Mark! You have to clean it up!"

"Why are you so jumpy?" Mark went over the cabinet to grab some paper towel.

"Didn't sleep much last night."

"How was she?" Mark tried to act it cool, but concern all over his voice. "You stayed with her?"

"No, I went home. Wait a minute, why should I tell you? After you manipulated us liked that?" Arizona flopped down on the couch with her half full cup of coffee, didn't even look at Mark.

"Oh come on, I did that to …"

"To protect us, I knew, you said it." The PEDS surgeon rolled her eyes to show the annoyance, Mark stopped his cleaning task, stood up with hands on his hips to stare at the blonde. "So, you knew I did it for a reason. You two are like the most messed up women I know, I got panic only to picture about you two get together."

"Mark, I knew you did it out of good intention, but still, it pissed us off. And please, stop picturing us together, that's… pervey."

"Wow, what did you do this time Dr. Sloan?" Miranda Bailey pushed open the door in time to catch the last sentence from Arizona, and her eyes shifted to the coffee stain on the floor, and to Mark who had the paper towel in his hand. "Dr. Sloan, I hope you are planning to clean up the floor before someone slipped on this."

Mark mumbled under his breath, bended over to soak the coffee by the paper towel after received another Bailey glance. The short woman went over to the couch to sit next to Arizona asked question with her eyes, the other woman answered with a not so whisper voice. "He stuck his nose in the wrong butts."

Mark left his head tried to say something, but decided better to keep it to himself, this was not the moment to add fuel to the fire.

"I don't need to know your dirty laundries, just keep it clean at work." The blonde was about to protest, Miranda cut her off. "I don't care. I need you to clear your schedule this afternoon, I have a liver transplant need you to scrub in with, we got a liver for the kid in 314, Karev is on the way to harvest it."

"OK, then I better go do the rounds now." Arizona stood up to walk toward the door, but Mark stopped her with pleading eyes. "Hey wait, we need to talk."

"Not now Mark, I'll come over to your place tonight, OK?" She patted on Mark's shoulder then left the lounge.

"Man, I don't want to know what had happened between the two of you, whatever it is, leave it at home." Miranda gazed at Mark when she exited the room.

"Callie, what are you doing?" Cristina stepped out of her bedroom with sleepily eyes, still in her PJ.

"Cooking." The apartment owner didn't even look at the one who asked the question, she was stirring a full pot absentmindedly. And foods had spread around the kitchen corner.

"Are you expecting company? There are a hell lot of foods." The Asian woman asked apathetically, picked up a piece of baby carrot to put in her mouth before settled on the stool next to the breakfast bar.

"Nope, just feel like cooking." Callie just leaned lazily on the counter, hand kept stirring the pot.

The two stared at the swirl in the pot, none of them started to talk but fell in their own mind.

"How long did you married?" Suddenly, Callie asked, eyes still on the pot.

"We were on and off about a year, got married a year and a half ago. You?" Cristina answered with a hand on her chin, both didn't attempt to lift their eyes from the stirring motion.

"I really don't know, together for… 2 months…? Got married for 3 months. Separated for 3 months."

"Bold."

"Come again?" The Latina finally looked at the woman in front of her.

"I said you were bold, married some guy in such a short time."

"Stupid should be the word." Callie huffed.

"Ditto."

Callie finally turned off the stove, leaned back against the fridge to look at her roommate. "You love your man, don't you? Why would that be stupid?"

"I love him, but sometimes love just isn't enough. We have different goals, and the longer we run, the more we find out that we can't just compromise with everything. It was like stuffed your face with greasy cheese burgers for years and then accumulated cholesterol in your vein, a heart attack was just the matter of time." The woman said in a dull tone, didn't shift her pose, didn't divert her attention from the steaming pot.

"I'm just sick of everyone keep asking me how am I doing? What am I going to do? I don't know. I am a hardcore cardiothoracic surgeon, I'd cut open someone's chest to hold a beating heart without a blink, in a split second I know what kind of procedure I should preform to save a life. But I don't know how to save a frigging marriage, or do I even want to save this frigging marriage. Every time when I try to sort out my mind, I could only picture him and the other woman… so annoying."

Callie stared at her roommate with a deadpan expression.

"It takes time. It takes time to heal a broken heart. It hurt a lot in the beginning, slowly the pain would subside, little by little you won't even remember what were you sorrow over about. You could pick up the pieces and mend them back together, or up and leaving, move on with your life. Either way, you need to give it time to heal."

"This was what you did? Up and leaving? That's why you are here now?"

"Kind of." Callie pushed herself away from the fridge, clapped her hands and said. "OK, I think we had enough mush for the day. Are you hungry?"

"I can eat." Cristina sat straight from the stool, extended her arm to reach for a plate, but her motion stopped half way and then she looked at Callie. "Can I ask you something?"

"Yes?"

"Why did you take me in? We barely know each other."

"I don't know, you seem nice."

Cristina gawked at Callie liked she suddenly grew 2 heads. "Nobody ever think I'm nice, you need to have your brain checkup, I can call Shepherd for you."

"Well, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship." Callie shrugged her shoulders and handed over a full plate.

"You are far more damaged than I thought." The Asian said.

"Don't I know it." The Latina sat next on the other bar stool, this time she was the one had a hand on her cheek gazed ahead.

"What had happened late night? Want to talk about it?" Cristina asked with a mouthful of food, the host glimpsed at her with a frown and then shook her head. "No I'm good, just had a meltdown."

"Well, having roller skate girl here was a good choice, no one could cheer up people like she did, it was painful sometimes to see someone so upbeat."

"Roller skate girl?" Callie turned her head to the Asian with her eyebrow raised up.

"Yep, she wore those ridiculous shoes with wheels underneath, you know, like a roller skate, in the hospital. I don't understand why the chef didn't ban her from skating down the hallways."

"Oh yes, the Heelys." Callie chuckled the first time since last night. "She told me that."

"Ridiculous, right?"

Callie didn't answer but chuckled, she turned her head faced forward again. After a while, she stood up and started to pack foods in some containers. Cristina looked at her with curiosity.

"What? You won't finish them all anyway." After putting the boxes in a tote bag, Callie headed out from the front door.

Arizona had Derek Shepherd for a consult, the poor 3 years girl was having seizure but they still couldn't figure out why, the 2 doctors sat in silent stared at the computer screen to wait for the scan imagine to appear.

Suddenly Derek turned to look at Arizona with a sheepishly smile and asked. "I've known Mark for… I don't know, since our childhood, I never saw him so trouble with anyone except me, what did he do to you to offend you?"

Arizona was shock because Derek wasn't the gossip kind of guy, as she thought. She frowned and then opened her mouth but couldn't form a word.

"Look, I am not trying to pry, just… Mark never took anything serious, but he came to me this morning all fidgety, said he did something terrible that you and Callie may never forgive him. I'm just curious."

Arizona's frown turned to a smirk. "Mark Sloan fidgeted?"

"Ya! That's why I am curious."

Well, now the peds surgeon found it amused. Mark and she were friends for years, they talked about their works, friends, families, relationships, even flings, but nothing really heavy that could cause serious emotion outbreak. Especially claimed that being a guy's guy, Mark never let his sensitive side revealed, he would mock the situation and used his bad boy charm to ease the tension. But letting someone saw him fidgeted, it was new.

"He tried to meddle with me and Callie, we found out he was kind of playing a trick behind our backs. I gave him a cold shoulder, and think Callie is going to cut him off." Arizona said casually, juggled a pen in her hand.

"Ha! That was mean! You both know how much he cares about you two, well play Robbins." They smirked to each other. "So how long are you going to chasten him?"

"Honestly, I don't know. I'll see what Callie wants to do."

They focused back to the computer screen for a while. "So, Mark is freaking out. I should go find him to get myself some fun." Arizona winked at Derek with a dimply smile.

Callie had the bag of food hanging on her shoulder, walking slowly entered SGMW hospital, her target was the peds wards. Waiting for the elevator, the Latina suddenly realized she should called ahead instead of showing up unannounced, after all it was a work place, especially it was a place that people may die in an instant.

However, it was too late since the elevator had opened in front of her, she entered the metal box along with 2 young women in the nurse uniform.

Once the doors closed, the nurses started to chat away, total unaware of there was someone else in there with them, obviously the casual wear and the bags of food made them think the Latina was a visitor that did not related to anyone who worked in the hospital, or they just didn't' care.

"What had happened to Colleen? She almost cut Mr. Chang's palm while handing him a scalpel in the OR today. That was like scrub nurse rule 101 – always hand the scalpel handle first, Colleen should know better than that."

"You didn't know? Dr. Robbins dumped her couple days ago, she was devastated."

"Silly girl, she really thought the infamous Dr. Robbins could stop fooling around for her?"

"Hey, we all thought Colleen tamed the female Sloan, when was the last time you heard anyone brag about getting the freak on with Dr. Robbins in the on-call room since Colleen? It was like the original Sloan stopped the hunt after Dr. Grey, who would know Colleen couldn't get the same happily ever after?"

"Is that mean Dr. Robbins is back in the game again?"

"Probably, I heard that she has eyes on the new nurse in Plastic, that's why she spends so much time in that floor…"

The elevator stopped in the nurses designated floor, both of them departed with their conversation, left the startled woman in there pondering with the new information she just got.

Deep in her thought, didn't realize that the elevator already sent her to the peds floor. Approached the nurse station, she asked for Dr. Robbins.

"Dr. Robbins… she is not on the floor…." The nurse looked around and then checked the book on the desk. "She is not in surgery…"

"I think she said she'll go up to the plastic wing for a while, I heard she told Dr. Shepherd earlier." Another nurse who passed by the station interrupted them.

The first nurse in front of Callie asked. "May I ask what is it for? Maybe I can page her for you."

"She spends a lot of time in plastic for the new nurse" The conversation of the 2 nurses in the elevator kept looping in Callie's mind.

"Ma'am?"

Snapped out of her thought, Callie answered. "Oh it's just fine, I'm a friend, just thought to pay a visit, I'll call her later, thanks." Then she turned around toward the elevator.

Didn't wait for the respond from the nurse, Callie made a quick turn and about to stride, suddenly a flash of blond ran into her, correction, skated into her.

"Wow, be careful." Callie caught the person collided to her out of reflection, when she pulled back and helped the other to stand steadily, she found that person was the one she came here for. "Arizona! What are you doing?"

"Oh hey Callie, good catch!" Arizona beamed when she looked up and found it was Callie that she bumped into.

"Good catch? You crashed into me." The Latina dropped the hands that were holding the peds surgeon's arms for stabilizing her. "Luckily I am not a patient in here, think about how many bones you were going to crush if I were a dying one that were not strong enough to brace you?"

"Prrr… you are so dramatic. And in my defense, you took a sudden turn that was why I almost ran into you."

"This is a hospital, full of people in here, and people make sudden turns. Seriously, this is too dangerous Arizona…"

"I am skilled, don't worry." The smiling blond just waved her hand to try to brush this off. "Why are you here? Is everything alright?"

"Here, I got this for you. I just… I couldn't sleep so, I cooked. I made too much and I thought to bring you some, as for a thank you and an apology, for last night…" Callie handed over the tote bag bashfully.

"Callie, you don't have to…" The blond peeked in the bag with a grin. "It looks good, sure better than the mysterious meat in the cafeteria, thank you." Arizona looked at the woman in front of her with a full force dimply smile.

"You are welcomed. I… Ummm… I should go." Callie pointed toward the elevator ahead of the direction and started to step away. "Bye Arizona."

Arizona watched the brunette walked away in a hurry, she called after her. "Hey Callie, it's my lunch break now, would you like to share these with me?" She held up the bag.

Callie turned around and answered "I… Ummm… have some errands to run, you enjoy it." After a sheepish smile, she wheeled and continued her path to leave.

Arizona followed the Latina to the elevator, eyeing her while they were waiting. "Do you have any plan tonight? Want to grab a bite together?"

"I… errr… I don't know, I think I should go to work tonight, shouldn't leave Joe alone 2 nights in a row."

"OK, then I'll come for a drink later."

"Ummm… ok… see you then." Callie just rushed into the elevator as soon as it was opened.

Sensing something was wrong, Arizona stopped the door from closing. "Callie, is it some wrong? Do you want to talk?"

"Nothing, I just… I have to go Arizona, bye." The locked eyes, then the blonde back away to let the elevator door closed in front of her.

Walked toward the attending's lounge with the bag in hand, Arizona was wondering what had happened with Callie. The brunette had opened up to her last night, she was fine when Arizona left the place, but how come she withdrew again? And most importantly, if she want to withdraw, why brought foods to the hospital?

Opened the door to the lounge, she found Mark and Teddy were there sitting on the couch talking.

"No Mark, I am not going to help you fix your problem… Hey Arizona you are here, can you tell this man to leave me alone? I won't help him to win you back, or something." When Teddy saw her friend was settling on the table, she got up and walked to her. "Are you OK?"

Arizona just nodded her head and put the bag down, Mark came to join them and then looked into the bag. "What do you get in here? Paella, cocido, gazpacho… These are Spanish foods." Mark paused when he picked up another box. "Chicken piccata…? These are Callie's famous chicken piccata? Where did you get these?"

"She just dropped it by." Arizona answered impassively.

"She was here? When? How was she? Was she still mad at me?" Mark asked desperately, but the blonde just looked roll her eyes.

"Oh come on Arizona, please, I am dying in here. I know I was wrong, I shouldn't interfere but I really did it to protect the both of you, you know how much I love you, you are my sister. And I love Callie with the same, I was there when she crumbled like a damn cookie after… her last girlfriend broke up with her, but I didn't stuck around to pick up the pieces then she married that loser. I promised her that I won't let her do anything stupid when she agreed to move to here." At this point, Mark was literally begging for forgiveness, sadness written all over his blue eyes, Teddy was amazed and Arizona too, but internally, she was not going to cave so easily.

"So what you mean is, getting close to me is a stupid move that you have to protect her from doing?" Tilted her head to the side, Arizona dared Mark to answer the question. Being on the blind spot of Mark's, Teddy was watching the whole scene with delight.

Mark dropped his head with frustration, held up a hand to rub both of his temples, he was out of his element in there. Mark Sloan was always a doer, to him talking was overrated, but in this moment he started to think maybe he was wrong.

Suddenly a hand patted on his shoulder, raised his head to look into the piercing blue eyes, couple of second later the smiling blonde in front of him said "Fine, I knew why you didn't tell me she is a bi, I understood why you didn't want her to know I am available. But it doesn't mean I am pleased with it, you owe me a big one."

A huge grin slowly appeared on the face of the plastic surgeon, breathed out a sigh of relief he threw himself forward to hug the woman tight. "Mark… Mark… can't breathe….."

"Oh I am just too happy." Mark released the embrace and rubbed the eyes by his palms. Teddy sneered. "Are you crying?" "No!" Then he stood up and walked toward the fridge, stuck his head in there to pretend looking for something.

The two women just giggled to each other.

And when Mark finally returned with 2 bottles of water in hands to join his colleagues on the table, he asked. "So, we are going to look at the boxes or can we eat them? Cal can cook and I really prefer these than the things from the cafeteria, you know I never eat anything from there except the apples."

"Sure." The three of them worked together to microwave the foods, grabbed some table wares and napkins, then sat together to dig in.

"Oh my god, these are really god." Teddy exclaimed.

"I told you, Callie really can cook. Back in New York, she often invited Addie and I went over to have dinner party. She liked to make a lot of different dishes because her girlfriend loved her Spanish cuisine, we always said we were invited just because she need someone to help finishing the load of foods." Mark smiled to the memory and then put a piece of chicken piccata in mouth. "God I missed this, the last time I ate this…" He froze.

"Since Malena died?" Arizona asked.

Mark looked at the blonde wide-eyed, she nodded. "She told me last night."

"She was a mess for a very long time, I don't think she ever had this kind of big production since then." He gestured the foods on the table.

"She said she couldn't sleep, so she cooked."

"She used to cook with Malena. Mal didn't cook, but she would sit in the kitchen for hours just to watch, said Callie looked sexy with a scraper in hand."

"What are you guys talking about?" Teddy asked curiously.

"Callie's late girlfriend." Mark said. "I couldn't believe she told you, she didn't tell me herself."

"Girlfriend? As in… her lover? I thought she had a husband."

"She had a late girlfriend, led to an ex-husband." This time it was Arizona answered the question, then put another spoonful of paella in her mouth. "Yes Mark, she told me, everything."

"Everything… you mean, since she moved to New York?"

"Yup."

"Uhh… ok."

For a good 5 minutes no one said anything, they just enjoy the food quietly.

Suddenly Teddy screeched that caused the other two jumped. "I got it! Now I knew why you were angry with Mark, you said he didn't tell you Callie is a bi, now I knew it." The exciting long hair blonde slapped the man sat next to her in the back.

"Ouch! What the hell Teddy? It hurts! That conversation was like a thousand years ago!" Mark exclaimed and tried to reach to the back to rub the throbbing area.

"Yes Teddy, don't you kind of slow?" Arizona was laughing at Mark's childish reaction.

"Hey, I am well-known with my leisured realization, it took me years to know Hunt liked me, and months to know the guy I married actually into me, remember? This time it just took 20 minutes, already quicker than normal." Teddy smirked and massaged Mark's back to ease the pain.